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Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social These opinions are my own, not my employers’ I did a TED talk once
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Me: I am in Belgium. This is great. I will practice my French! Also me: Oops, I am in Flanders. I will shut up now.

Kudos to Mikko for understanding that Russia is absolutely not going to stop at Ukraine and deciding to do what he can about it. www.theregister.com/2025/06/04/m...

I am reading that New Yorker profile of Curtis Yarvin and I cannot overemphasize how much he is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person sounds like. I resent having to know who this man is. I wish to wipe him from my memory.

This is how newspapers should react when the government asks them to carry its water.

When I said that everyone has a story about Glenn Greenwald being a dick to them, this is not what I meant.

While Texas police are creepily tracking the location of a woman who has had an abortion for her "safety," let's check in on what the NYPD is up to.... Oh. Oh. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Texas police say they used Flock to search for a woman they believed had had a self-administered abortion for her "safety." I call bullshit. www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Sometimes the good guys win and when that happens, I do a little dance.

This is your regular reminder that it is not un-Jewish or anti-Israeli to oppose to war in Gaza and call out its crimes against civilians. You are taking a position shared by [checks notes] the former Prime Minister of Israel.

NEW: More than a decade ago, Kaspersky discovered a mysterious "elite" hacking group it called Careto (aka “The Mask”), which then vanished and only resurfaced last year. We can now reveal that the researchers who investigated it were confident that the Spanish government was behind it.

The greatest job alert! My team at EFF is hiring and you could be on it: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

Me, looking at my work calendar: This is insane. No one can do this much work. I'm going to find the asshole that did this and give them a piece of my mind! Me, looking in the mirror: Oh no.

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

Walking out of a meeting when a colleague would not stop interrupting me.

I got as far as Lowry insinuating that he could not have raped those women because he was also drunk at the time and that he is much better now because he is committed to sobriety before I threw something across the room: www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

After months of reporting and research, I’m really excited and proud to publish this series on AI and energy. It’s a deep look at AI’s energy requirements, where that energy mix comes from, and its carbon debt. www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/a...

A significant number of people that I have known have died in the last year and if there is one thing I have learned, it's that no one needs my hot take on how they choose to deal with their grief.

1/ Earlier this month, the Head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) for Papua New Guinea threatened DDoSecrets with legal action - "including cooperation with INTERPOL" - if we don't censor the Mineral Resources Authority data. We refuse to comply. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

These screenshots sure seem to indicate that Sairaj Balaji didn't built his AI de-radicalization tool to show what a dangerous and wrong-headed thing it is and didn't refrain from deploying it for ethical reasons.

Some good news for your Monday morning. techcrunch.com/2025/05/19/c...

McKenzie Funk's biography of Hank Asher, "The Hank Show" is worth reading for people who are interested in the history of data fusion and the data broker industry, even if it is my opinion entirely too kind to its subject.

Please stop building AI tools to deploy bots to "engage" with unknowing posters. And especially stop doing it to "engage" with "radicals" or any other group you are identifying based on ZERO EXPERTISE IN THE MATTER. www.404media.co/student-make...

I never realize how much cognitive load is taken up by smiling and making the right amount of eye contact until I land in Eastern Europe where my immaculate Resting Bitch Face is perfectly normal.